There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

Be specific in your prayer requests of GOD.

Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

Life begins only when we cross the borders and not definitely before!

Behind a cold face there is always an insecure heart.

The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.